Stage
1 - Warmer
10 mins tch<>stds, std<>std, tch<>stds
1. Tell the stds about your weekend or the past couple of
days but lie 3 times. The stds have to guess the lies, to
tell you when you have finished.
2. Stds in small groups do the same.
3. Feedback - did you guess the lies etc.. who was good at
lying?

to lie through your teeth, a pack of lies,
be a tissue of lies, stretch the truth

2. Stds copy down the vocab3. Personalise the vocab - give out the
following questions:

1. When
was the last time you told a white lie?

2. When was the last time someone told
you a whopper? What about?

3. Do you know anyone who is a compulsive
liar?

4. When is it OK to stretch the truth?

5. What kind of things to children fib
about?

4. Feedback - elicit answers & follow up
interesting anecdotes.

Stage
3 - Intro to reading
5-10 mins tch<>stds, std<>std, tch<>stds
1. Give the stds the brief article introduction - this could
be dictated, done as a running dictation or simply read out.
2. Stds predict the content of the article - put some ideas
on the board.

Stage
4 - Reading - general
10 mins tch<>stds, std<>std, tch<>stds
1. Handout articles & stds see if their predictions come
up in the article. Gibe a time limit to help them speed up
their extensive reading ability.
Alternatively, you might want to work on logical sequencing
- the text lends itself quite well to being cut up after each
paragraph & the stds have to put it into a logical order
- then compare with the original.
2. Stds compare.
3. Feedback.

2. Why is it suggested that people are
lying more now than they used to?

3. Who was involved & what were the
results of the study that is mentioned?

4. Why might lying seem to be a positive
attribute?

5. Why is it suggested that singles on
first dates lie?

6. What kind of things do singles lie
about?

7. What does the article say about more
long-term relationships?

8. Does the article suggest that we are
also better at receiving lies?

A couple of considerations:
What about the vocabulary that might crop up? A post-reading
task?
And poss. another language focus task - look through the text
to see if there are any areas that would be of interest to
your stds.

Stage
6 - Follow up activities
20 mins???
Here are a couple of ideas to use:

Discussion: when would you lie? List situation
when you think it would be OK to lie to someone.

Nationalities - what is the general attitude
to,lying in your native culture? What about other cultures
that you know about?

News & history - collate incidents in the
past that have made the news due to lying. Rank from most
to least serious.

Chatting up - in pairs stds chat each other
up, making up new backgrounds for themselves.